102 BULLETIN 58, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



says, ''Seldom a light vertebral line," but of the 5 specimens from 

 Taiwan fu, since received, 4 have a ver}^ distinct broad whitish 

 Ime down the middle of the back. Inner metatarsal tubercle varia- 

 ole; in most specimens it is strong and large, while in a female from 

 Formosa (by Dickinson ) it is comparatively small. 



Hahitat. — Plancy's frog was originally described from Peking, and 

 specimens from Shanghai, Chusan, and Ningpo are in British IMuseum. 



The specimens recorded from Formosa are all in British Museum, 

 the only ones with a definite locality being from Taiwan fu. 



List of specimens of Rana plancyi. 



RANA OKINAVANA" Boettger. 



1895. Rana ohinavana Boettger, Zool. Anz., XVIII, July 8, 1895, p. 266 (type- 

 locality, Okinawa shima, Riu Kin; types, Mns. Senckenberg. No. 1072, 

 la); Offenbach. Ver. Nattirk. 33-36 Ber.. 1895, p. 103. 



This species is not represented in any of the collections which have 

 reached the U. wS. National Museum or the Science College Museum in 

 Tokyo. I owe the inspection of the two type specimens in the 

 Senckenberg Museum in Frankfort on the Main to the kindness of 

 Doctor Boettger, whose original description I give below in transla- 

 tion. I have only to add that the heels do not overlap. A third 

 specimen also from the late Mr. B. Schmacker, whose Japanese col- 

 lector obtained them in the Riu Kins, is in the Bremen Museum 

 according to Doctor Boettger. 



Original description by Doctor Boettger. — Adult female; Sencken- 

 berg Museum, No. 1072; Okinawa shima. In general similar to R. 

 lateralis Boulenger, but with shorter snout and more robust ; vomerine 

 teeth in two rounded bundles beginning on a line with the posterior 

 border of the choanae and separated from them as well as from each 

 other by ec|ual intervals; head moderately large; snout short, ante- 

 riorly slightly pointed, and somewhat produced, as long as the diam- 

 eter of the eye; nostrils equidistant from tip of snout and eye; can- 

 thus rostralis angular, loreal region slightly depressed longitudinally; 

 interorbital space scarcely broader than the upper eyelid; tympanum 

 very distinct, three-fourths the size of the eye; fingers moderatel}^ 



a From Okinawa shima. 



